It comes after months of speculation that the the Chancellor could scrap cash ISAs in a bid to get more UK investors in stocks and shares ISAs Rachel Reeves should abolish the cash ISA to reverse the “alarming decline” of UK investments, a new report has revealed. Trading provider IG says the UK has long
Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled the government’s 2025 spending review, laying out government and departmental spending over the next four years. Overall, budgets will grow by 2.3 per cent a year – a more modest sum compared to 3.8 per cent annually at the 2021 spending review under Boris Johnson’s Conservative government. There was a record
By JAMIE BULLEN and LETTICE BROMOVSKY and JAMES TAPSFIELD and DAVID WILCOCK and GREG HEFFER Updated: 08:36, 11 June 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves will today unveil her spending review in Parliament. The review, which will set out day-to-day spending plans for the next three years and capital spending plans for the next four, is expected
The government has pledged to halve violence against women and girls (Picture: In Pictures via Getty Images) More investment will be needed if the government wants to achieve its promise to cut violence against women and girls in half, Keir Starmer has been warned. A major spending review set to be announced by Chancellor Rachel
By JAMES TAPSFIELD, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE Published: 08:19, 3 June 2025 | Updated: 08:20, 3 June 2025 Rachel Reeves is facing a battle to get the spending review over the line with four ministers said to be holding out. The Chancellor is due to unveil the crucial three-year settlements for departments in just over
Couples marrying abroad could be landed with a huge inheritance tax bill if their foreign wedding is not legally binding, a husband and wife have warned. Antonia Medlicott, 49, and Tim Pindar, 44, tied the knot in 2009 in the wedding of their dreams in Spain. The couples families flew out for a ‘big Catholic
One of the chief attractions of my South London suburb is the free and readily available on-street parking most of us enjoy – an increasingly rare bonus for a neighbourhood within half an hour of the centre of town. This has meant that, in the 37 years since my family moved to the area, we
The Government is set to press ahead with an overhaul to cash ISAs despite concerns over pushing people towards riskier investments at a time of turbulence in the stock markets. The Treasury is considering limiting the amount that savers can put in their tax-free accounts each year, with a decision expected later this year. Economists
By JAMIE BULLEN and LETTICE BROMOVSKY Updated: 10:35, 3 April 2025 UK stocks plunged immediately after markets opened this morning as chaos caused by Donald Trump’s tariffs take effect. London’s FTSE 100 Index dropped sharply on opening, falling 122.4 points or 1.4% to 8486.09 after President Trump unveiled sweeping new taxes on US imports. World
China’s finance ministry has announced the impending issuance of sovereign green bonds in London, which will mark its first overseas sale of such bonds and a concrete step following high-level economic and finance talks earlier this year. The yuan-denominated issuance will be worth up to 6 billion yuan (US$829.75 million) with specific details to be